Johann Jacob Repp, the son of Johann Heinrich Repp, was born on 10 March 1728 in Hain-Gründau. Maria Elisabeth Hirchenhaÿn, the daughter of Conrad Hirchenhaÿn, was born on 2 September 1734, also in Hain-Gründau. Jacob Repp and Elisabeth Hirchenhaÿn were married in Büdingen on 11 April 1766.
Jakob Repp, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 10 along with Maria Elisabeth Eisenhuth, the orphaned daughter of Christian Eisenhuth and Anna Maria Repp, the sister of Johann Jacob Repp.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Jakob Repp came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 413.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hk67.
- Mai, Brent Alan & Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767): Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #516.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Hain-Gründau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 142.
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